The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army officials in their statement added that two key foreign supporters of the group and one of their commanders were also killed during the operations.

In the past 24 hours operation Afghan security forces have launched 12 large operations so far and dozens of medium and large operations while hundreds of airstrikes have been conducted on the hideouts of the group. .

It is said that Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan but certain remote districts of it have witnessed growing insurgency mainly led by Taliban and ISIS during the recent years.